Saturday, June 7, 2014

How many times should you apologize?

How many times do you think a person should say “I’m sorry”?
Does a time come when you should realize that this person is just not willing to hear
your apology?

I have been in an interaction with someone who seems
unwilling to accept my apology. As our initial conversation was six weeks ago,
I am uncertain as to the specific words used and to how this misunderstanding took
flight. What this person heard and what I meant do not jive, because I know better
than to give her that response. The information she heard me say was incorrect,
I know that, and she knows that too.

When she first confronted me with this, I apologized as the
information she heard me say, was indeed wrong. In that conversation, I believe
I apologized twice. She responded again, her anger was not yet diffused, and I
was willing to let her have the last word thinking that this would be the last
of it.

Two weeks later, this woman brought the situation up again
with someone else.

Do you know someone like this? Are you this someone? How
willing are you to accept that you and everyone else in this world, is not
perfect? We are all ruled by excitement on an upcoming trip, fatigue, ill health, children/partner problems,
and lack of coffee. If we do expect perfection from others, how merciless
might we be with ourselves?

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